Ricardo Pinheiro Lopes    
Ricardo Pinheiro Lopes has been a private tutor for the last 27 years. Beginning as a technical director in an English Language School, he went on to improve methods of this and other English Language schools and devised placement tests for teachers and students of English as a second language. He is also a translator, having translated some books in the areas of Psychology, Music and Education and a celebrated Brazilian poetry book into English. He has prepared students for examinations, for business and advertising presentations and for business trips abroad. Although he takes beginners, he mostly teaches conversation classes with directed vocabulary backed by a solid reference library.
Ricardo in his office, sitting on top of all the words in the English and Portuguese languages